Education: Molding Men

They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some
hot-shot guy on a horse jumping over a fence . . .
And underneath the guy on the horse's picture, it always says:
"Since 1888 we have been molding boys into splendid,
clear-thinking young men." Strictly for the birds. They don't do
any damn more molding at Pencey than at any other school. And I didn't
know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all.

Many an educator seconds Hero Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the
Rye, whose wry view of "Pencey Prep" echoes the language
repeatedly used in advertising...